"When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?"

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Barack Obama, American President

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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow."

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"This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water."

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"Fact is based upon vulgar matter."

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"The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being."

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"I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire."

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"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."

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"I'm trying to climb up both walls at once."

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."

"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."

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"The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow."

"This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water."

"Fact is based upon vulgar matter."

"The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being."

"I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire."

"I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer."

"I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago."

"This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief."

"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."

"I'm trying to climb up both walls at once."